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Windows 7: Extrememly slow start up

I was hospitalized for about a week and had a neighbor stay at my house and look over things. Before I left I gave her a guest account on my pc so she could use it while I was away. She didn't have access to a pc unless she was at work. When I returned everything was fine with the apartment and all but when I went to start my computer it took a ridiculous amount of time till I saw my desktop...almost six minutes.

I have since rolled back to and earlier date...no success
Used a start up program removal tool...no success
Used all spam and Trojan removers...no success

I'm assuming you've ran your anti-virus and anti malware scans, correct? Excuse my ignorance but what exactly is a "start up program removal tool"? I must admit your post puzzles me a bit, from what you said you did to try and fix it to your system spec.'s. Here's a link to a tutorial for optimizing windows 7 : Optimize Windows 7

Extrememly slow start up

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Details are listed below, any help would be greatly appreciated!
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